A beautiful Monolithic Dome home — This dream home has a diameter of 50 feet, a height of nearly 29 feet, two stories and 3500 square feet of living space. The dome sits among shady trees on five wooded acres in gently rolling hills.

Beautiful Monolithic Dome Home in the Texas Hill Country

Location, Location, Location

In 1999, Kim and Robert Reynolds designed and built a Monolithic Dome dream-home, a 5/8th sphere with a diameter of 50 feet, a height of nearly 29 feet, two stories and 3500 square feet of living space.

Shaded by more than 80 live oaks, the dome sits on five wooded acres among gently rolling hills, seven miles northwest of Bandera, Texas.

An asphalt driveway, some 375 feet long, winds from the road and through the trees to a tall, steel gate at the entrance to this unique property.

Eleven Serene, Breathtaking Rooms

It encompasses a great room with formal living and dining areas, a master sitting room, three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, an upstairs den and a large utility room.

A 24-foot Texas limestone fireplace dominates the great room, with its floor of Italian imported ceramic tile that looks like wood parquet and adds to the room’s feeling of warmth, comfort and security. The great room’s living area features a mini-bar with decorative glass shelves.

Master bedroom has an attached sitting room that could easily be closed-off and converted into a nursery or fourth bedroom since it has its own entrance and closet.

Special features of the master bath include a roomy Jacuzzi tub, double sinks, vanity, separate shower, custom tile and 36-inch-high, custom cabinets.

Plentiful, 36-inch-high, custom cabinets grace the kitchen as well. It also features a large wine rack, a ceramic stove top, double ovens and a built-in microwave with a large, round island.

Most of the home’s interior walls are painted a soft gold with high-gloss white trim. The upstairs den and sitting room have brick red accents. A downstairs bedroom is painted a cool, periwinkle blue with high-gloss white trim. The kitchen and half-bath feature custom wallpaper.

All metal accents, such as doorknobs, cabinet hardware, ceiling fans and faucets are polished brass.

Ceramic tile or carpeting covers the floors throughout the home.

The dome’s interior walls are commercial steel, fire-resistant and termite-proof. All windows are double-pained.

Other Features

Air-conditioning is a single zoned, 1.5-ton unit with dual speed and one heat strip. Interior temperature is kept at 75 degrees during the day and 68 degrees at night; monthly electric bills run between $80 and $120.

Six hundred feet of flexible PVC pipe run from the exterior of the dome, around the cellar and up to the air-conditioning intake; this acts as a heat exchange. As the air-handling unit brings air in, the earth cools or heats the air, making the air-conditioner/heater more energy efficient.

Energy efficiency is further enhanced by maroon awnings over all downstairs windows and doors.

Dome’s exterior has been sprayed with acrylic stucco and skirted with decorative limestone.

Note: When we recently interviewed Mr. Watson for an article about the new Monolithic Dome on his campus, he had great comments about the project that didn’t get into the article. Here’s what he had to say:

Matthew and Jari Whiteacre dreamed about building a Monolithic Dome Home for a long time before their dreams became plans. In September 2013, after transforming 1.93 acres of scrub brush, grass and trees into an elegant paradise, the Whiteacres realized their dream and moved into their gorgeous new Monolithic Dome home in College Station, Texas. Graceful curves echoing the curves of the Monolithic Dome are the hallmark of this estate. Read more about this stunning Monolithic Dome Home and view gorgeous photos of the Whiteacre’s home in this article.

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Being the coinventor of the dome and the founder of the Monolithic Dome Institute has given David B. South the opportunity to not only fine tune the building process, but to create a company whose main mission is to make available Monolithic Dome technology to all the world. It is the hope of Monolithic to educate the public about Monolithic Domes and to provide professional services to its customers by creating a successful partnership with them through all phases of their dome design, planning and construction.

The Monolithic Dome made it affordable for Wasuma Elementary to build a gymnasium and do so with style. Superintendent Glenn Reid told Mackenzie Mays with the Fresno Bee that he didn’t want people thinking they stepped into a Save Mart Center. Instead, they built a Monolithic Dome and “it does look pretty cool when you step inside.”

Get it while it lasts, a $500 coupon for the September 2015 Monolithic Dome Workshop. The week-long class divides hands-on training and classroom instruction for a one-of-a-kind experience. The $500 coupon plus the early-bird discount lowers the price to only $1495. Only ten spaces are available with the coupon.

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The fourth Monolithic Dome built outside Idaho was in Chandler, Oklahoma for Bill Matthews in 1978. I had written an article for a fertilizer magazine explaining how a Monolithic Dome would be a terrific fertilizer storage. Bill read the article and flew to Idaho to see our domes. We hadn’t built a fertilizer storage, yet. His would be the first and it opened the gates to fertilizer domes all along the Mississippi River.

New Monolithic Dome safe room in Pawnee, Oklahoma is large enough for the whole town. Local TV station, KFOR, profiled the dome during a school tornado drill. As the students quietly walk to the dome, Superintendent Ned Williams explains the advantages and why they built the safe dome.